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Commissioned Photographer based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. graduated Diploma in Photography Project in collaboration with Danish Media, World Photo Press and Noor images at Amsterdam which stimulated her to work on documentary projects where her projects to bring feelings into images and always believe photograph motivate and make others to think and react.

My projects mainly focus on women, human rights and identity, I dedicate myself to work on these issue and currently working on Motherhood and Childhood Separation in UAE and Under and Young Girls marriage with Older man in Rohingya Community,Bangaldesh.

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Trading in a host of goods and services keeps the Rohingya going, ranging from live chicken to haircuts to a host of labor jobs. Running their small businesses has resulted in forging new friendships, learning art, sending their children to school with the support of NGOs, even finding life partners.

Adbul, who does haircuts for a living in a refugee camp, was part of an earlier exodus of over 200,000 Rohingya after the brutal army-ordered purge that year.

Abdul says the new-found freedom has come at a price. He revealed in an interview given to me that his people had been forced to abandon their loved ones besides everything they owned in the Rakhine region that was once their home.

Many are still traumatized by what they have experienced — most have no idea of the future that awaits them, Abdul adds, as he waits for his next customer.

Abdul is thankful that they experience safety and intellectual freedom, albeit weighed down by emotional distress that displacement brings. He reveals that the Rohingya refugees pine for a return to normal lives in their homeland, but which in the same breath, he adds, remains a pipe dream.

Rohingya share stories during my visit to Bangladeshi Refugee camp, witnessed hearing the horror, loss and hope of recovery. Interviewed Rohingya’s who fled to Bangladesh said, we fled the country with fear to save our children and lives. We came here to find freedom. We feel we’re safe here. This series shows how they make settlement after Rohingya's move to Bangladesh and how they starting their new live without knowing the future.

The persecution of the Rohingya — Myanmar’s religious and ethnic minority community — dates back to 1948, the year in which the country achieved independence from their British colonizers.

Ever since, repeated pleas for a promised autonomous state, have been contemptuously rejected. On the contrary, inhuman barbarism heaped on the Rohingya — consistently classified as “illegal migrants” by successive Myanmar governments — has increased, with 2017 witnessing the high point of barbarism unleashed by the Myanmar military. Over 700,000 Rohingya then fled to neighboring Bangladesh.

Rohingya share stories during my visit to Bangladeshi Refugee camp, witnessed hearing the horror, loss and hope of recovery. Interviewed Rohingya’s who fled to Bangladesh said, we fled the country with fear to save our children and lives. We came here to find freedom. We feel we’re safe here. This series shows how they make settlement after Rohingya's move to Bangladesh and how they starting their new live without knowing the future.

The persecution of the Rohingya — Myanmar’s religious and ethnic minority community — dates back to 1948, the year in which the country achieved independence from their British colonizers.

Ever since, repeated pleas for a promised autonomous state, have been contemptuously rejected. On the contrary, inhuman barbarism heaped on the Rohingya — consistently classified as “illegal migrants” by successive Myanmar governments — has increased, with 2017 witnessing the high point of barbarism unleashed by the Myanmar military. Over 700,000 Rohingya then fled to neighboring Bangladesh.

Commissioned Photographer based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. graduated Diploma in Photography Project in collaboration with Danish Media, World Photo Press and Noor images at Amsterdam which stimulated her to work on documentary projects where her projects to bring feelings into images and always believe photograph motivate and make others to think and react.

My projects mainly focus on women, human rights and identity, I dedicate myself to work on these issue and currently working on Motherhood and Childhood Separation in UAE and Under and Young Girls marriage with Older man in Rohingya Community,Bangaldesh.

"Rohingya’s Trade inside the camp"
Trading in a host of goods and services keeps the Rohingya going, ranging from live chicken to haircuts to a host of labor jobs. Running their small businesses has resulted in forging new friendships, learning art, sending their children to school with the support of NGOs, even finding life partners.
Adbul, who does haircuts for a living in a refugee camp, was part of an earlier exodus of over 200,000 Rohingya after the brutal army-ordered purge that year.
Abdul says the new-found freedom has come at a price. He revealed in an interview given to me that his people had been forced to abandon their loved ones besides everything they owned in the Rakhine region that was once their home.
Many are still traumatized by what they have experienced — most have no idea of the future that awaits them, Abdul adds, as he waits for his next customer.
Abdul is thankful that they experience safety and intellectual freedom, albeit weighed down by emotional distress that displacement brings. He reveals that the Rohingya refugees pine for a return to normal lives in their homeland, but which in the same breath, he adds, remains a pipe dream.

Marriage in the Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh
Early marriages are common among the Rohingya community. Abdul (67) married Fatima(19), “My parents wanted me to get married so I couldn’t say no, I am the eldest in my family, I have 8 sisters and one brother after me, predators and traffickers are major threat inside the camp, being single is not safe so my parents want me to marry Abdul , moreover he is taking care of me very much ,”Fatima Said.

"Brave Rohingya Mothers"
Rahima, 20, holds her three-month-old son Ahmed. “I fled to Bangladesh because of fear, now we are in Bangladesh , happy that I saved my child life. I was 8 month pregnant and suffering from fever while crossing the border. I also have three years old child, so it was very difficult to reach the border from our village in Myanmar. I had to rest frequently. After eight hours of horrible walking finally we crossed the border, paying the broker,” Rahima said.
Not only Rahima, many defenseless brave mothers faced different horrifying experience to save their live and their loved ones.

"We want rights and freedom to live in Myanmar"
We want to go back Myanmar, we want to live in peace and have citizenship rights and freedom before I die sadly”, said Rahman.
In Myanmar, the Rohingya have no human rights, discriminatory laws and practices which have effectively denied citizenship to Rohingya on the basis of their ethnicity.
The memories though of a lost country live on. Beyond the exhilaration of breathing freedom, there remains a sense of mourning for their native land. For one exiled, the joys of the present are dulled by the reminiscences of the past.

Having been provided sanctuary in Bangladesh where they experience safety and intellectual freedom, albeit weighed down by emotional distress that displacement brings, the Rohingya refugees pine for a return to normal lives in their homeland.
However, a deep trust deficit in the powers that be in Myanmar is what reduces their aspirations to a mere pipe dream.
The memory of a lost country lives on. Beyond the exhilaration of breathing freedom, there remains a sense of mourning for their native land. For an exile, the joys of the present are quite perpetually dulled by the memories of the past.